BACKING Definition: Replacing a non-velar or non-glottal consonant with a velar or glottal consonant.
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Phonology 101
Assimilation
Assimilatory processes Assimilation is said to have taken place when one speech segment is transformed into another owing to the influence of a neighboring segment. In the majority of cases the segments are individual speech sounds but there are instances where a whole syllable will influence a neighboring syllable.
Vowel Harmony
VOWEL HARMONY Definition: Replacing the unstressed vowel in a multisyllabic word with the vowel that receives the primary stress.